I think the male privilege debate would be improved if we had a more solid definition for what male privilege is. male privilege is not just "benefits" that are given to men, because cis men experience what everyone should experience.
male privilege is not like, youre being given a little dessert with your meal. everyone is given a meal, but if youre a cis man, you get to eat it without someone putting sand all over your food. you dont even have to think about the possibility of eating sand, ever! but the woman next to you has spent her whole life trying to pick out edible bites of food and getting grit out of her teeth that she doesnt even think about it anymore. the sand is misogyny, the food is life.
male privilege is when you never have to worry about or be victimized by misogyny, and how relatively easy life is without that weighing on you.
with this definition it becomes apparent that no trans person has male privilege. trans men do face misogyny, both before and after transition, and the hypervigilance is instilled in us forever no matter how well we pass or stealth. obviously i dont need to tell you that trans women experience misogyny; transmisogyny is a particularly violent, cruel and insidious form of it that fucks with you severely.
the patriarchy is rigged towards cisgender heterosexual men only and male privilege is not something that can be gained, because it represents the ideal of how things should be for everyone in a world where no one is victimized by misogyny.
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